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    Language Defines Our Lives

    MAY 19, 2012 6:48PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: subtlety, nuance, hypocrisy, dictionary, semantics, meaning, prolife, prochoice, baby, fetus, slavery, pregnancy, religion, pro-life, pro-choice, abortion, life, politics, linguistics, language, philosophy

    • 0 Ratings
    • 119 Views
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    Upspeak? Yeah, I like totally hate it?

    APRIL 24, 2012 8:57AM

    By Ryan Mooney


    Topics: upspeak, language, linguistics, speech

    • 1 Ratings
    • 121 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Language, the most amazing thing

    APRIL 12, 2012 10:43PM

    By grettalulu


    Topics: linguistics, language

    • 1 Ratings
    • 332 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Arabic Words in English

    JANUARY 26, 2012 9:20PM

    By Surazeus


    Topics: surazeus, dust storm, haboob, linguistics, language, english, arabic

    • 0 Ratings
    • 171 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Happy Holiday

    OCTOBER 11, 2011 8:26PM

    By Freya Shipley


    Topics: halloween, linguistics, language

    • 1 Ratings
    • 175 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Farsengtalian

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 11:30AM

    By Third Culture


    Topics: farsi, italian, language ability, linguistics, trilingual

    • 3 Ratings
    • 2558 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Dear Mom, Your Baby Probably Won't Survive

    JUNE 30, 2011 7:20PM

    By Janine Kovac


    Topics: nicu, messaging, linguistics, health, pregnancy

    • 0 Ratings
    • 263 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Short Story: "Peace Initiative" (2nd in a series)

    MAY 20, 2011 11:26AM

    By P. Orin Zack


    Topics: fiction, short stories, whorf hypothesis, activist, governance, warfare, peace, protest, linguistics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 878 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Why the “Birther” Movement is No Joke

    APRIL 28, 2011 10:28PM

    By Freya Shipley


    Topics: language, framing, barack obama, donald trump, politics, linguistics

    • 28 Ratings
    • 973 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    The Soft Language of Rape

    FEBRUARY 8, 2011 10:54AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, rape, legislation, hr3, h.r. 3, terminology, linguistics, men are from mars

    • 0 Ratings
    • 189 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Block Seven [The State of the English Language is Strong]

    FEBRUARY 6, 2011 10:23PM

    By Troi Carleton


    Topics: books, english language, app, quilting, linguistics, 'the first american', the dialect society of america, benjamin franklin

    • 4 Ratings
    • 617 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Speaking in Tongues

    FEBRUARY 3, 2011 4:05PM

    By moviegeekjn


    Topics: movies, documentary, linguistics, language studies, education

    • 0 Ratings
    • 89 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Words

    JANUARY 31, 2011 9:24PM

    By Humanlaw


    Topics: poetry, language, rhetoric, linguistics

    • 10 Ratings
    • 596 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Productive Morphology

    JANUARY 30, 2011 6:08PM

    By catch-22


    Topics: geeking out a little (only slightly), linguistics, spoken word, poetry, morfología productiva, red herrings

    • 44 Ratings
    • 1067 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    Small words that say so much

    DECEMBER 28, 2010 11:22PM

    By FusunA


    Topics: music, books, open call, four letter word, linguistics, lost in translation, colloquialism

    • 9 Ratings
    • 572 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Unchallenged Bias and Propaganda

    NOVEMBER 16, 2010 11:24AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: reporter, reporting, journalism, journalist, media, fact, opinion, mindless, clueless, proxy, bot, avatar, factchecking, fact-checking, fact checking, outsourced, filibuster, bush tax cuts, obama, bush, republican, regular price, sale price, sale, raising taxes, expire, expiring, tax breaks, tax cuts, reconciliation, proper use of language, use of language, fair reporting, neutral reporting, objective reporting, reporting, objective, objectivity, terminology, linguistics, spin, politics, propaganda, bias, liberal, conservative, republican, democrat, democratic

    • 2 Ratings
    • 243 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    The Amerikan Edukashunal Sistum. Y Johnny Kant Reed.

    NOVEMBER 13, 2010 11:35AM

    By Ted Zeppelin


    Topics: linguistics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 295 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Fuzz Bumpies and Glass Hammers (or, I’ve Been Framed!)

    OCTOBER 7, 2010 2:13PM

    By Lucifer James


    Topics: abortion, abortion rights, pro-life, pro-choice, politics, political framing, linguistics, semantics, humor, comedy, sex, pregnancy, family planning, steve buscemi, alessandra ambrosio, beer

    • 5 Ratings
    • 497 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Miss Ellipsis...

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 9:16AM

    By Inverted Interrobang


    Topics: manu chao, linguistics, sociological, political, poetry

    • 0 Ratings
    • 206 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Why Would You Study That Bad English?

    AUGUST 23, 2010 7:48PM

    By Nicole Holliday


    Topics: english language, discrimination, linguistics, black, african american

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